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Thursday, February 27, 2014

What? Again...

I'm not sure whether I should shake my head at myself or laugh.

I just finished rereading the nine Bone graphic novels by Jeff Smith. (Not Rose yet though... apparently I put that one in storage when I moved back in with my parents. No. Idea. WHY.) While reading it I was puzzling over some questions that I was going to write here...but looking back at my older posts I realized that I already wrote about my puzzlement. Like, two years ago.

So, to document the fact that I'm still puzzled, here's a copy and paste of what I wrote then. With an edit from me.

SPOILERS for Rose by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess, and the Bone books 1 through 9 by Jeff Smith

In the Bone books it takes everyone, including Grandma Ben, by
surprise that Briar's dreaming eye was open and that she was big buddies
with the Lord of the Locusts. But, that's something that Grandma Ben
finds out about in Rose, which precedes the other Bone books.

Inconsistency? Or did something happen to make Grandma Ben forget about it?

Also, Briar is an old woman at the end of Rose, and yet it seemed to me that somewhere in the Bone
books there is a picture of her looking young(ish) on the night that
Thorn's parents died. Though I could be completely mistaken on that.

[Edit on 2/27/14: No, I wasn't mistaken. At the end of Rose the sister was turned into an old woman, but during the flash backs in Bone books she definitely looks younger.]